English Language - what "Does your head in" ??

bertgrower · Post by **bertgrower** » 13 Oct 2017, 1:00pm

I have a french friend who's brother has mental impairment. He was unable to speak untill age eight . He was taught to speak my lady over a period of few weeks.

Even so, his grammer is perfect even though he has no formal grammer lessions and is unable to read.

He is age 70

colin54 · Post by **colin54** » 16 Oct 2017, 9:05pm

BBC news readers saying President T...p, surely it should be U.S President T...p, he's not our President is he ?

Post by **Vorpal** » 17 Oct 2017, 8:14am

colin54 wrote:BBC news readers saying President T...p, surely it should be U.S President T...p, he's not our President is he ?

No one is going to mistake him as another president, or the president of somewhere else. Not even the Virgin Islands. :lol:

661-Pete · Post by **661-Pete** » 17 Oct 2017, 5:51pm

Vorpal wrote:Not even the Virgin Islands.

Presumably Mr T can't have ever been there. Else they wouldn't be....

cyclop · Post by **cyclop** » 29 Oct 2017, 10:12pm

When did the sound "str" in a word suddenly become "shtr" as in shtrong,exshtra,shtriking etc.Annoys the hell out of me.

Post by **Mick F** » 30 Oct 2017, 8:22am

+1

........... and free instead of three, and firty instead of thirty.

Cyril Haearn · Post by **Cyril Haearn** » 22 Nov 2017, 6:36pm

So I rather like the new (?) habit of starting a sentence with *so*

Cyril Haearn · Post by **Cyril Haearn** » 28 Nov 2017, 2:15pm

cyclop wrote:When did the sound "str" in a word suddenly become "shtr" as in shtrong,exshtra,shtriking etc.Annoys the hell out of me.

Comes from German like so much else

Vetus Ossa · Post by **Vetus Ossa** » 28 Nov 2017, 3:45pm

People that say bin instead of been!
Hardly anyone seems to say been these days, just listen to any to program, even those that you would think should know better don’t seem to.

Vetus Ossa · Post by **Vetus Ossa** » 30 Nov 2017, 12:35pm

People that start a sentence with…So.

Cyril Haearn · Post by **Cyril Haearn** » 30 Nov 2017, 12:37pm

Vetus Ossa wrote:People that start a sentence with…So.

I really like that, even do it myself %)

Vetus Ossa · Post by **Vetus Ossa** » 30 Nov 2017, 1:21pm

Anything Ant and Dec say...

Post by **Vorpal** » 30 Nov 2017, 2:45pm

Cyril Haearn wrote:
Vetus Ossa wrote:People that start a sentence with…So.

So, I really like that.

FTFY

Post by **Vorpal** » 30 Nov 2017, 2:48pm

Mick F wrote:+1

........... and free instead of three, and firty instead of thirty.

Lots of people seem to have trouble with the 'xth' sound. They say 'sikth' instead of 'sixth'

Cyril Haearn · Post by **Cyril Haearn** » 30 Nov 2017, 8:37pm

661-Pete wrote:
Vorpal wrote:Not even the Virgin Islands.
Presumably Mr T can't have ever been there. Else they wouldn't be....

Mr Branston the railway magnate is the President of the VI surely

I worked for an american company once, it had lots of Presidents and VPs, I think President translates to Department Manager in English

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